Barely a week after the Lagos State Government sought compulsory psychiatric test for rape and other domestic violence offenders in the country, one Magbatie Emmanuel has been arrested for allegedly defiling an 18-month-old baby girl in Owutu axis of Ikorodu area of the state.
Emmanuel, a 47-year-old artisan, who resides in THE same building as the victim’s parents, allegedly defiled the girl at the weekend.
The unnamed mother of the victim, on discovering this, was said to have rushed her to Ikorodu General Hospital and a day after, to Mirabel Centre at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, for test, Vanguard is reporting.
Confirming the act, the coordinator of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT, DSVRT, Mrs. Lola Vivour-Adeniyi, lamented that the mother of the victim affirmed that the perpetrator was her neighbour.
She noted that the victim’s mother visited Mirabel Centre at LASUTH for appropriate medical assistance and to aid the judicial processes.
The coordinator further noted that DSVRT facilitated the transfer of the case from the Owutu Police Station to the gender desk of the state Police Command in Ikeja to expedite action on the case, adding that the perpetrator would be detained to allow the completion of the test and issuance of result from Mirabel Centre, after which, the case would be charged to court for proper judgment.
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